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Click here to RSVP for the virtual via Zoom discussion: https:\/\/www.cew.umich.edu\/events\/virtual-judith-butler-whos-afraid-of-gender-book-group\r\n\r\nIn Who\u2019s Afraid of Gender?, Butler aims to address the following question: \u201cWhat kind of phantasm has gender become, and what anxieties, fears, and hatreds does it collect and mobilize?\u201d (36). While doing so, Butler examines how this phantasm relates to today\u2019s \u201cmyriad acts of cancellation, pathologization, criminalization, and delegitimation . . . seeking to destroy freedoms and powers that social movements on the Left have struggled for decades to establish\u201d (24). The book is a timely and necessary investigation into the weaponization of \u201cgender\u201d as a phantasm invoked by those calling \u201cfor the elimination of gender education, the censorship of texts concerned with gender, and the disenfranchisement or criminalization of transgender or genderqueer people\u201d (36).\r\n\r\n--------------------------------------------\r\n\r\nNational Bestseller. Named a Best Book of 2024 (so far) by NPR,\u00a0Harper\u2019s Bazaar,\u00a0W, and\u00a0Esquire, and\u00a0a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0The Washington Post,\u00a0Time,\u00a0Los Angeles Times,\u00a0Elle,\u00a0Cosmopolitan,\u00a0Kirkus,\u00a0Literary Hub,\u00a0Autostraddle,\u00a0The Millions,\u00a0Electric Literature, and\u00a0them.\r\n\r\n\u201cA profoundly urgent intervention.\u201d \u2014Naomi Klein\r\n\r\n\u201cA timely must-read for anyone actively invested in reimagining collective futurity.\u201d \u2014Claudia Rankine\r\n\r\nFrom a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world.\r\n\r\nJudith Butler, the groundbreaking thinker whose iconic book\u00a0Gender Trouble\u00a0redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on \u201cgender\u201d that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed \u201canti\u2013gender ideology movements\u201d that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization\u2014and even \u201cman\u201d himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.\r\n\r\nThe aim of\u00a0Who\u2019s Afraid of Gender?\u00a0is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how \u201cgender\u201d has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of \u201cgender\u201d collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of \u201ccritical race theory\u201d and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.\r\n\r\nAn essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment,\u00a0Who\u2019s Afraid of Gender?\u00a0is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. 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